Bach’s favorite instrument, the organ, and a violine from his orchestra make appearances and are wonderfully preserved. The Bach Museum Leipzig is interactive! Explore the whole family of musicians and items from his family home. The museum explores his life, works, and the world’s reception to his music. Find music manuscripts, editions of Chopin’s works, his correspondence, historical and contemporary iconography, personal items, and criticism of his works.While the musician was born Polish, he became a French citizen in 1835 and became Frédéric François Chopin, which is his most common association. The Fryderyk Chopin Museum in Warsaw, Poland has the largest collection of the composer’s memorabilia with over seven thousand items. These edifices often lend themselves to kid-friendly activities like Sound Gardens, or live concerts in halls and amphitheaters in the style of their respective composers. While you’re spending time in Poland, Germany, or Austria, meander through the homes of musical geniuses and stop at beautiful and interactive museums. All these "classical" composers wrote significant music for ballet, by the way, which is definitely comparable.By: Natalie Blackbourne, to Museum Spotlight Europe If you like Stravinsky, you'll get on very well with Danny Elfman's scores. If you want more "tuneful" music, the most obvious modern examples are composers for film. I'll be perfectly honest and say I don't actually like a lot of that myself! But that's not to say these are the only works available by modern composers. Perhaps you're thinking in terms of more "challenging" works by modern composers.
Mozart and Haydn were influenced by Bach, Beethoven and Schubert were influenced by Mozart and Haydn, Chopin and Liszt were influenced by Beethoven and Schubert, and so on. Even your examples show the history involved. There are wider influences available today than Beethoven had, partly by virtue of wider cultural range, but also simply by the passage of time and the work done by successive composers.
How can one flavour of composer arise when all tastes are catered for?Ĭlassical music itself has moved on, via Stravinsky, Debussy, Britten, Glass and so on.
For the ones who hate it there are thousands of other artists and genres. Some people love Michael Jackson's Music some hate it. The splitting of a preferred music genre into a thousand smaller genres means that there are a thousand separate rule-sets, and divisions people who love them. But they're all big fish in smaller ponds. Some names immediately come to mind if I say say Pop, Country, Progressive Rock, Dubstep, Jazz, Time Lord Rock (Okay maybe not Time Lord Rock). Most genres have what you'd consider their own Mozarts. What was once a giant pile of influence is now a thousand little piles. Nowadays, you don't simply have a genre of music that's worked on and elaborated.
The reason there was a set of rules ties largely into the church's views on music, but what's important is that they don't apply anymore. One of the advantages of a set of rules is that you can work within them to make increasingly elaborate and beautiful examples. Both Mozart and Beethoven had access to the people who not only defined those rules, but expanded upon them (Notably Haydn and Bach). It's no coincidence that Mozart and Beethoven were around the same time, because classical music for its beauty is a genre based on harmonic rules. That panel was the nobility and the church, and Mozart was Susan Boyle. In metaphoric terms, imagine a small X-factor panel decided what was worth sharing, and nothing else got through. But through that exposure - along with his talent, a lot of work from his father, and possibly the fact that he was male - he was able to cultivate his talents in front of the influencers that made him a cultural icon of the day. Mozart for example was fortunate enough to be taken round royal courts from a young age along with his sister, almost as a novelty. This meant that classical composers who made it in the day were akin to Michael Jackson or The Beatles today.īecoming a part of the influence structures at the time was hugely difficult, and very few had the means to do it. In its day, classical music was tied in to the main influence structures of society: nobility, and the church.
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